Rise Above Mediocrity Quotes

#1. It is not that we had any unfair knowledge that other people didn't have, it is just that we did our homework. People just don't want to believe that anyone can break away from the crowd and rise above mediocrity.

Paul Tudor Jones

#2. We only rise above mediocrity when there's something at stake. p. 174

Tom Robbins

#3. And when we view a flag, which to the eye is beautiful, and to contemplate its rise and origin inspires a sensation of sublime delight, our national honor must unite with our interests to prevent injury to the one, or insult to the other.

Thomas Paine

#4. There is a universal language, understood by everybody, but already forgotten. I am in search of that universal language, among other things.

Paulo Coelho

#5. What we'd like to think of YouTube as is a part of Google with very overlapping goals and values. We're a fundamental part of the advertising business for Google.

Salar Kamangar

#6. I feel vulnerable every single time I step into a classroom. I feel completely exposed.

Colleen Saidman

#7. An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.

Irving Stone

#8. Everyone knows love doesn't hold a house together, but tell that to the house.

Wodke Hawkinson

#9. And why the hell was I thinking this crap while Sam was in the other room with a heart that would never be unwounded again? Maybe her heart would never heal. Maybe the hurt would live in her forever. So why in hell was I thinking such stupid and shallow things?

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#10. I think a lot of people compare female writers or female comedians to each other in a way that men are not. Male comedy writers are not scrutinized.

Mindy Kaling

#11. Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about.

Edward Abbey

#12. A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

Charles Horton Cooley

#13. Our understanding of how DNA informs our health and development is advancing at an incredible pace.

Anne Wojcicki

#14. And when the night is cloudy there is still a light that shines on me, shine until tomorrow, let it be

The Beatles

#15. For where God intends to do any good, he first works in them a gracious disposition: after which he looks upon his own work as upon a lovely object, and so doth give them other blessings. God crowns grace with grace. By

Richard Sibbes

#16. Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

William E. Gladstone

#17. Souls who can recognize God in the most trivial, the most grievous and the most mortifying things that happen to them in their lives, honor everything equally with delight and rejoicing, and welcome with open arms what others dread and avoid.

Jean-Pierre De Caussade

#18. .. From there we came to love. We told each other what lovers never tire of hearing and needing to say.

Ian McEwan